Active Learning Activities

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Peer Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Family Feud

Race for the Hat!

Systems Ball Toss

Engineering Ethics

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective